Well goodness that is a lot of EXCELLENT information, I appreciate this a lot. I've been listening to the Zero no Kiseki OST and thinking about trying to find the Ao no Kiseki and eventually Sen no Kiseki as Rhythm Encounter has played a few excellent songs from their albums but then I ran into this confusing Evolution stuff. Thank you so much!

P.S. Your post recommended both regular and evolution albums, please just tell me it's not a case of needless meddling like the Final Fantasy X HD OST.

Is that one of those game theories, like that one I read about years ago for FF8? The one that states that after disc 1 once the Sorceress impales Squall with an icicle everything after that is a dream/life flashing before ones eyes/heaven or something like that.

I'm still in the minor opinion that FFXII was a bad soundtrack despite my major love for Hitoshi Sakimoto so having him out for the next installment and Hamauzu in made me happy. Honestly, even though the game has so many people against it, the music kind of makes me want to play the game.

I was hoping there would be a post on this album already so I would have a place to "rant" but alas I have to create one myself. I was expecting it to be great but they honestly George Lucas'd the whole album, songs that were intentionally sparse have become over-produced, songs that had cool rhythms are buried under new instrumentation and now I have no interest in playing the game even though there's all that new content I missed because it was cut in the US version of the game. I know one of the reviewers for this website gave it a glowing review (one of the main reasons I picked it up) but I am needless to say disappointed. Am I alone on this, am I just feeling the FFX nostalgia or does it sound worse to others?

The Terranigma OST is great. I haven't heard any Soul Blazer stuff so I can't make any opinions on it. Although I never played Illusion of Gaia much past the intro, if they released the three games as a trilogy on 3DS I would definitely be throwing my money at Nintendo.

I knew about Ys IV in my search for everything Falcom Sound Team last year and I've heard so many people mention Glory of Heracles having fantastic music (I am a huge fan of Yoshitaka Hirota's work on the Shadow Hearts franchise). There were two others I thought of over the weekend that I wish had official releases Concept (DS) and an old adventure game called GROUNSEED. I guess there is a Rare Tracks album or something but there doesn't appear to be an official release.

I don't know how I feel about all of the piano tracks being at the end of the album but the variety is what makes this album much stronger than the first (I like electronica so I could be biased). This was probably the most unique VG ost I've heard in a long time.